Fortinet Virtual Appliances

Provision and manage security across virtual and physical environments

Ensure your security solutions meet the demands of a virtual environment by consulting with a Zones security solution expert. Contact your Zones account manager or call 800.408.9663.

Few organizations use 100 percent hardware or 100 percent virtual IT infrastructure today, creating a need for both hardware appliances and virtual appliances in your security strategy. Fortinet allows you to build the security solution that’s right for your environment with hardware and virtual appliances to secure the core, the edge, and increase visibility and control over communications within the virtualized infrastructure.

Fortinet FortiGate Virtual Appliances

FortiGate virtual appliances allow you to mitigate blind spots by implementing critical security controls within your virtual infrastructure. They also allow you to rapidly provision a security infrastructure whenever and wherever it is needed. With the addition of virtual appliances from Fortinet, you can deploy a mix of hardware and virtual appliances, operating together and managed from a common centralized management platform. In addition, the appliances offer these benefits:

• Increased visibility within virtualized infrastructure
• Rapid deployment capability
• Ability to manage virtual appliances and physical appliances from a single pane of glass management platform
• Simple licensing with no per-user fees
• Support for multiple virtualization platforms

Fortinet FortiCloud

FortiCloud is a hosted security management and log retention service for the FortiGate firewall security product line. It gives you a centralized reporting, traffic analysis, configuration and log retention tool without the need for additional hardware and software.

• Low touch device provisioning - Get your security and wireless infrastructure up and running quickly by centrally bootstrapping devices
• Centralized configuration management - Change device settings instantly by
• Traffic and application visibility - Oversee network utilization by leveraging built-in dashboards and Fortiview’s drill-down capabilities
• Secure hosted log retention - Minimize IT costs by storing log data in the cloud
• Cloud-based APT sandboxing - Leverage threat research from FortiGuard to prevent the latest zero-day attacks from affecting your network
• Rogue AP detection - Prevent attackers from circumventing your wireless network with the introduction of rogue APs
• Custom and preconfigured reporting - Proactively optimize and secure your network by leveraging reporting insights